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Week 1 October 02, Introduction to Existentialism

Week 2 October 09, Introduction to Existentialism (ctd)

Week 3 October 16, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

Week 4 October 23, Franz Kafka, The Trial

Week 5 October 30, Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

Week 6 November 06, Albert Camus, The Outsider

WEEK 7 TUTORIALS WEEK

Week 8 November 20, Simone de Beauvoir, The Blood of Others

Week 9 November 27, Guest Speaker: Danny Broderick - 'Existentialism and Eastern Philosophy' (1.30-3.00)

Week 10 December 04, Saul Bellow, The Victim

Week 11 December 11, Guest Speaker: Dr Simon Mullins (1.30-3.00)
You should read Kafka's 'Metamorphosis' in preparation for this session (link)

Week 12 December 18, Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Module Leader - Steven Earnshaw, Owen 1147: 0114 225 4163; e-mail - s.l.earnshaw@shu.ac.uk

Module Tutor - Neil Miles - n.miles@shu.ac.uk

Assessment is by one 3500 word essay

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